NSW public servants at climate conference told not to discuss link with bushfires

As bushfire conditions were declared “catastrophic” on Tuesday, New South Wales bureaucrats attending a conference on adaption to climate change were directed not discuss the link between climate change and bushfires.

Firefighters work to save a house on Bullocky Way,
Possum Brush, south of Taree on Tuesday. The
NSW government has directed public servants not
to discuss links between climate change and bushfires.

Bureaucrats from the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment were sent an email soon after the AdaptNSW 2019 Forum began, causing consternation among some attendees who saw it as tantamount to gagging them.

The email said: “For those attending AdaptNSW today, public affairs has issued advice not to discuss the link between climate change and bushfires.

Read the story from The Guardian by Anne Davies - “NSW public servants at climate conference told not to discuss link with bushfires.”